>> armstrong: let me welcome my cohost, and superstar raffi williams. thank you as always. we have daniel pike, president of the forum, who is joining us. dr. pike, thank you for joining us. while everybody is talking about turkey, talk about the back ground, the backdrop, what led >> well, two point, the first is that the military is the keeper of the legacy of the founder of modern turkey who died in 1938, a long time ago. over these 80 years, there's a military that has kept alive more than any other institution the secular pro western outlook turkey, and in the pursuit of that military coups, 1960, '81, and 1970, and they looked at the politicians and told them to start over. it's not the first time that there's been a military coup. the politicians are fighting and to the religious, andent very bizarre election. he got 33% of vote, but because of intricacy of the turkish he ended up with 66% dominating and has continued to dominate foreclose to 16 years. he has a programming -- a program [ inaudible ] but more than that, as time went on, especially the last four or fiv